Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to be perfectly clear and unequivocal on this point: Unless, at the very minimum, an individual possesses a formal engineering degree from an accredited institution of higher learning, they are not, I repeat, not trained engineers. They are, at best, technicians. At worst, they are gamesmen and wordsmiths—adept at navigating systems, but wholly unqualified to hold themselves out as members of the engineering profession. And let us speak candidly about the singular anomaly that is the legal profession: it appears to be the only calling that deliberately trains its practitioners in the arts of reward-seeking through systematic cheating, lying, and deception—all artfully repackaged and dignified under the noble banner of “advocacy.” The profession trains its initiates, year after year, to zealously represent liars, cheats, counterfeiters, and outright criminals, provided only that the currency flows in the proper direction. It is a profession that has institutionalized the transactional defense of the indefensible, all while maintaining the outward trappings of ethics and justice. That, Your Honor, is the unvarnished reality.
